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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
September 3, 2010

Make something out of your trash

Posted by : ambria

As someone who tries to fill the recycling bin far more often than the trash can, it’s refreshing to find an opportunity to make something profitable out of the trash. That’s what students at Annunciation Catholic School in Cave Creek hope to do. They’re holding the great Trash Bag Sale through Sept. 21. A third [...]


April 3, 2010

Praying arms

Posted by : ambria

Students at Annunciation Catholic School in Cave Creek had their hand at making pretzels and hot cross buns last week. The activity was in honor of Lent as the pretzel with its depiction of arms folded in prayer, is a symbolic food during the prayerful/penitential season. Here is what Fr. William Saunders once wrote in [...]


March 31, 2010

Newest Catholic school’s identity takes shape

Posted by : ambria

Annunciation Catholic School has been without an identifying image since opening in Cave Creek in August. That all changed today when the school’s monthly newsletter unveiled Annunciation’s official logo. Like all logos should, it’s full of symbolism: Cross — Self-explanatory. It’s a Catholic school. Horn — Symbolizes the Archangel Gabriel who announced to Mary that [...]


January 3, 2010

Catholic school honored for parade float

Posted by : ambria

After only several months in existence, Annunciation Catholic School in Cave Creek, the diocese’s newest, already has an award to tout. The school, which currently has only first and second grade students, built a float for the Electric Light Parade Dec. 12 in Carefree. It was part of Have a Carefree Christmas festivities. The float [...]


September 29, 2009

Bishop dedicates newest Catholic school

Posted by : ambria

Sharon Pristash, principal of the new Annunciation Catholic School in Cave Creek, e-mailed me this photo last week. I hoped to share it sooner, but had a series of personal setbacks that largely kept me out of the office. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted blessed and dedicated the school Sept. 23. He led a procession that [...]